Hello, im nicky schiller. We start with that breaking news. The Foreign Secretary lord cameron has announced the us, uk and partners will open a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza but he said he would continue to urge israel to allow more trucks into gaza is the fastest way to get aid to those who need it. His full tweet says people in gaza are in desperate humanitarian need, alongside the us, the uk and partners, we have announced we will open a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza and he goes on to say, we continue to coach israel to say, we continue to coach israel to allow more trucks into gaza as the fastest way to get aid to those who need it. It comes as the Eu Commissioner Ursula Von Der Leyen is expected to make a statement this hour and she is in cyprus. This was announced as part of the state of the Union Address by President Biden last night and he confirmed he has ordered the you s military to build a temporary peer of the coast of gaza to ensur
we have one week to go. a seven-day sprint of the primary season. a portland area backyard, the missing piece ripped from a packed airliner in mid-flight. we have ignition. mission to the moon, the first lunar launch in decades blasts off with the real aim might be mars. that mars mission september a high for us on this monday. hi, even. good day to our viewers. it s monday, january 8th. let s get into it. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington. 4:00 in iowa, where social security just a week before the first votes are cast in the presidential race. republican candidates blanketed iowa over the weekend urging voters to caught cuss for them next month when temperatures are forecast to be in the single digits. got to love iowa. the candidates emphasized iowa s influence on the nomination process and the vital importance of turnout. donald trump continues to dominate polling in iowa, so overwhelmingly that the other candidates struggled to escape talking about him and put the focu
we begin with the turmoil on financial markets today, the pound sterling continues to languish against the us dollar and several other currencies. the slide in its value was triggered by last week s mini budget, with its controversial package of tax cuts. let s get historical for a moment. we have records for sterling against the dollar going back through history, and in the early hours of monday morning it reached an all time low that is since the creation of the us currency in 1792. let s take a closer look at the past few days the dollar has been strong but this further drop down is about sterling weakness, with a bit of a recovery and then falling back again. you can see this dramatic few days, sterling weakness with a little bit of recovery before it fell back again. on friday and monday there were massive moves within a day, which for a currency like sterling is rare. and one of the impacts of a low pound means that we import inflation, oil and gas is more expensi
healthcare, prescription drugs and more. we need to show democrats across this country that the democratic party can actually get stuff done when we have 50 democrats in the senate, and i think that s where we are right now. so i m all about forward looking, brianna and hello, joe manchin. happy to have you. a new effort to form a viable third party, names from the right, left and center say they will succeed where others failed. soon we ll hear from the president of the united states live at the white house. he ll tout big progress on his agenda, a senate agreement that includes new climate and new health care investments. a package, the president will say in a way that will also take a big bite out of inflation. it is a smaller, but still significant piece of the giant goals the president and has party had back in the beginning of his term. the white house event is a presidential push to get this new senate deal to the finish line and, make no mistake, it is a president
this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned